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By Doug Mohney, on August 16th, 2010
Newly launched eZuce (www.ezuce.com) comes with some familiar names in the IP PBX world. Hoping onto the UC bandwagon – ok, so everyone is these days – eZuce openUC is bragging about seven years of development through SIPfoundry efforts.
Founder Steinmann started up SIPfoundry and the sipXecs project in 2004, along with morphing Pingtel from [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 11th, 2010
After being off the PR radar for nearly a year, Fonality (www.fonality.com) has gone through an extreme makeover and started making noise again through a “relaunch” of the company that includes 1) A website redesign 2) Actually talking to media again and 3) Doing a big presence at IT EXPO West. Oh yes, and expanding [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 11th, 2010
Polycom (www.polycom.com) and Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) have declared their love, er a “global strategic agreement” for developing and marketing “integrated,” standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions.
The agreement makes Polycom a member of Microsoft’s “key strategic global alliance” for UC; both sides will invest in product development, sales, and marketing.
Polycom will develop a broad base of solutions [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 20th, 2010
Optimum Lightpath (www.optimumlightpath.com) has connected to CENX’s New York exchange.
The move allows Optimum to connect/reach more than 10 million Ethernet service locations worldwide, enabling Optimum’s customers to establish Ethernet-based low-latency and high-bandwidth connections between the New York metro area and key locations around the world.
Needless to say, Optimum has a lot of financial [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 14th, 2010
IntelePeer and WorkSpace Communications have teamed up to deliver a hosted UC offering based on Microsoft Office Communications Server.
IntelePeer is providing the SIP Trunking service, a voice peering network, and “SuperRegistry” while WorkSpace is providing a patent-pending Microsoft OCS environment that interoperates with any previously installed Microsoft Exchange Solution.
Together, the two enable service providers to [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 12th, 2010
Global Crossing (www.globalcrossing) has installed some heavy duty bandwidth at baseball stadiums around the country as a part of its deal with MLB.com.
The company has installed 155 Mbps circuits to all 30 Major League Baseball ballparks around the country and a whopping 2.5 Gbps circuit in New York to enable the MLB.com site to [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 9th, 2010
Verizon Business (www.verizonbusiness.com) will run field trials of Cisco’s new Hosted Collaboration Solution for the next two months.
The trial is expected to enable participants to see how cloud-based UC&C (unified communication and collaboration) capabilities can be used quicly and cost-effectively across an enterprise.
Participants include “a multinational auto manufacturer, a woman’s fashion retailer and [...]
By Doug Mohney, on July 9th, 2010
Digium (www.digium.com) has announced the availability of Switchvox Mobile applications for iPhone and Blackbeery. The freely downloadable apps integrate with the Switchvox VoIP/UC solution to bring “advanced UC” functionality to users when they are away from the office.
The Switchvox Mobileapps are connected to an employee’s phone extension so when mobile workers make a business call [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 12th, 2010
The economy must be getting back to normal – Dialogic (www.dialogic.com) is “merging” with publicly-traded Veraz Networks.
Once the deal closes, the name of the final entity will be Dialogic. Current Dialogic CEO and Chairman of the Board Nick Jensen won’t have to change business cards; he will be Chairman of the Board and CEO [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 11th, 2010
Network Hub, Data Center to Address Growing Demand of Asia-Pacific Businesses
HONG KONG – Verizon Business is strengthening its extensive Asia-Pacific network
Touting its major-league infrastructure spending, Verizon Business (www.verizonbusiness.com) announced it is opening up a second data center in Hong Kong. The new facility will “enhance” Verizon’s ability to deliver new and data center [...]
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